Saturday 5 March 2022

Canonizations

                              

Blessed Titus Brandsma

The canonization of a few Blesseds were just approved by the Vatican, and they will canonized on May 15. Among them is Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite friar who was sent to Dachau for treason after defending Jews and press freedom and was killed with a lethal injection in 1942 at the age of 61. He was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1985. He was one of more than 2,700 clergy — 2,400 of them Catholic priests — who had been detained at the notorious Nazi concentration camp in Germany after urging editors of the Dutch Catholic press to violate a new law of the Third Reich and not print any Nazi propaganda. 

Blessed Charles de Foucauld

Another Blessed is Charles de Foucauld who was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1858, and strayed from the faith during his adolescence. During a trip to Morocco, he saw how devoted Muslims were to their faith, which inspired him to return to the church. He joined the Trappists, living in monasteries in France and in Syria, before seeking an even more austere life as a hermit. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1901, he lived among the poor and finally settled in Tamanrasset, Algeria. In 1916, he was killed by a band of marauders. His writings inspired the foundation, after his death, of the Little Brothers of Jesus and the Little Sisters of Jesus. The others to be canonized are: Sister Maria Rivier, Blessed Sister Maria of Jesus, Blessed Lazarus (Devasahayam Pilla), Blessed César de Bus, Blessed Luigi Maria Palazzolo, Blessed Giustino Maria Russolillo, Blessed Maria Francesca di Gesù, Blessed Maria Domenica Mantovani.

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